Member of Technical Staff (Backend Software Engineer, Search Crawler)

Perplexity · Belgrade · Search

staff software engineering Staff Engineer tech_leadership 5+ yrs · Posted Jul 28, 2025

About this role

Perplexity is hiring a staff-level Staff Engineer in the software engineering function based in Belgrade. The posting calls out experience with Python, Rust, AWS, Kubernetes and roughly 5+ years of relevant work.

Role
Staff Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
staff
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
Belgrade
Experience
5+ years
Department
Search
Posted
Jul 28, 2025
AI Summary
Design and develop large-scale web crawlers, ingestion pipelines, and data processing systems for advanced search. Requires 5+ years backend development experience with strong data structures/algorithms knowledge in Python, C++, Rust, or Go, plus proven expertise building distributed, high-load services on Kubernetes and AWS.
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Job description

from Perplexity careers

We are seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our Crawler team. In this role, you will design, develop, and operate systems that ingest, process, and manage web-scale data in support of our next generation of advanced search technologies. This is a critical, high-impact engineering position, requiring expertise across both backend and frontend components of our data acquisition stack.

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of and lead projects focused on developing large-scale web crawlers, ingestion pipelines, and data processing systems.

  • Build, maintain, and optimize core backend and frontend components for crawler services, including storage, retrieval, and UI dashboards for data management.

  • Collaborate closely with Search and Infrastructure teams to ensure the reliable, high-quality ingestion and processing of billions of web pages.

  • Architect and implement fullstack features and scalable distributed systems that handle high-load and real-time data operations.

  • Rapidly iterate, experiment with novel approaches, and continuously enhance system performance, usability, and reliability.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 years of software development experience, with strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms in at least one of the following languages: Python, C++, Rust, or Go.

  • Experience with large-scale web crawlers is highly desirable.

  • Proven experience building, deploying, and optimizing high-load, distributed, and hardware-adjacent services.

  • Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, with hands-on experience in Kubernetes (K8s) and AWS.

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